NSA is going too far; our right to privacy still vital

5:49 PM,
Jun. 18, 2013

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My daddy gave me some sage advice one time, "Never write down anything you don't want the whole world to know."

Mind you, this was a time before Facebook and Twitter and personal blogs, when writing something down meant literally writing, with pen or pencil, on paper. Given how much of our lives we share online today, that advice is more important than ever.

But now, it seems, we have to do more than just watch what we write. With the revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly gathering data on the cellphone conversations of American citizens, it raises an entirely new set of ...